Summary:
	These are the replication materials for "Mitigating the Political Cost of Financial Crisis with Blame Avoidance Discourse: The Case of Turkey" to be published in Uluslararası İlişkiler. Below is the list all of the files included in the Dataverse folder that are needed to replicate the analyses in the manuscript.

Contents:
	/data:	
		Discourse data- Turkish crises.xlsx
		TCBB word frequency.xlsx
		tccb2.txt
		tccb2_a.txt
		tccb2_b.txt
		tccb2_c.txt
		tccb2_d.txt
		tccb2_e.txt
		tccb2_f.txt	

	/web scraping_code:
		web scrape.py
	
Package/Replication Process:
	- Instructions: Replicating our text analysis firstly requires downloading all the statements of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey between 2018 and 2022, which can be found in our replication package (tccb2.txt, tccb2_a.txt,tccb2_b.txt, tccb2_c.txt, tccb2_d.txt,tccb2_e.txt, tccb2_f.txt). These data were obtained by web scraping the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey website, the code of which can be found in the file web scrape.py. The frequencies of the words common in the text data can be found in the file "TCBB word frequency.xlsx" in the replication package, which is the source of Figure 1 in the manuscript. Through an archival search, we collected statements of incumbent presidents, ministers, and parliament members on the causes of crises, responsibility attribution for crises, government disputes on economic governance and crises responses, and blame for poor economic conditions. These data, with the relevant sources, can be found in the file "Discourse data- Turkish crises.xlsx" in the replication package, which are used to produce the Figure 2, Figure 3, Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3.





